SAROSEDA
Interdisciplinary workshops and audiovisual performances

Saroseda | Interdisciplinary workshops and audiovisual performances

Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran. Monday August 2^nd -6^th, 2010.

Circus Charivari's Freak show, Berlin

Payman Abbasian, Martin Shamounpour and Amirali Ghasemi are off to berlin to take part in Circus Charivari’s Freakshow, to realize some performances, Interactive pieces and sound projects in Berlin. Check some of the images here ….

PATTERNS
Nazgol Ansarinia’s Solo Show at Aun Art Gallery

Patterns by Nazgol Ansarinia, Aun Art Gallery

Fri, 28 May 2010 – Fri, 18 Jun 2010

Click here to see the works on Aun Art Gallery webiste

The exhibition “Patterns” consists of works from two series Ansarinia has been working on for the past three years; Nonflammable, Non-stick, Non-stain  from 2009-2010 and Patterns from 2007-2009. These works are shown together because, according to the artist, there are enough similarities and differences between them that makes them complimentary to each other.

In a way both series are based on finding ways to insert information and further meaning onto objects already familiar and perhaps overlooked. The work series Patterns uses the Persian carpet as an everyday object to do so. This collection of drawings inspired by the familiar images and experiences of life in Iran plays with the visual potentials of this wold-recognised object/image. While the main subjects are contemporary, the drawings retain the structure of carpets and combine new images with the original patterns. These new patterns are therefore familiar in terms of their form but convey very different meanings to that of their origin.

In Nonflammable, Non-stick, Non-stain, the objects used and the subject matter are again both based on mundanities, but this time the method for their combination is less apparent, or in other words it is more abstract or coded. The plastic sofreh or table cloth is an unremarkable object found in most Iranian homes but sofreh in its literal sense is also a metaphor for one’s economic status in Iranian culture. Playing with the literal meaning and its actual functionality, sofreh is used as a medium to carry data about the repetitious subject of daily expenses. Visually manipulating the original decorative patterns of the plastic tablecloths, statistical reports of daily expenses are inserted onto these everyday used objects. The method of building a system by relating numerical values to visuals is not unlike the way visuals are used in representing statistics in different fields of science. However the purpose of these visual charts is not to simplify data, but for them to morph into common patterns.

TEHRAN ZOO

Arash Radkia + Arash Khakpour

TEHRAN ZOO is an experimental documentary by up and coming Iranian film makers Arash Khakpour and Arash Radkia. The film portrays the wildlife zoo in Tehran, Iran.Tehran zoo has been shown in Tehran and Cario a part of LIMITED ACCESS II video program and in parkingallery’s IRAN vs. in Istanbul at PiST, as well as Kashan university of art. Follow the link for more info.
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Delightful Dawn by Digit All

Khatchin (Dotted Line)

Directed by By Niyaz Saghari (IR/UK)

Niyaz Saghari is Born in 1977,Tehran-Iran she has graduated with and M.A in Animation, from University of Wales,Newport and a B.A-Film Directing from Art University-Tehran. her works has been exhibited in tehran and abroad

Khatchin was a part of Parkingallery’s Deeper Derpression video program exhibited in Azad Art Gallery in 2006.

Someone Was Here
Shirin Sabahi at Gallery No 6
Opening: Friday, March 5, 17:00 – 20:00

Shirin Sabahi’s work evolves from 8-mm films taken by Jan Edman (1928), a retired Swedish engineer who traveled to Iran nearly 15 times between 1966 and 1979. He visited different Iranian cities on behalf of a Swedish consulting and engineering company for the purpose of realizing industrial projects commissioned by various Iranian state-owned and private industries.
In the video installation Swede Home 1966/1973/1975/2009*, through cameraman’s gaze in his films and his vague remembrances of his trips thirty years after, Sabahi takes the audience back to Iran of the ‘60s and the ‘70s where she herself has no physical experience of. Activating this non-lived past by means of someone else’s recollections, Sabahi introduces Edman’s arbitrary narration to this history which her generation carries variety of it through different modes of transference; from parents and education to media.

In the photo series Untitled (00’00’’) still images of Edman’s films from Iran and Sweden are presented as double-exposed photographs. In these photographs, Edman’s visual documentation of the dual locations he lived and worked in points at the current condition of human mobility and displacement.

Shirin Sabahi (B. 1984, Tehran) received her BA in Industrial Design from Iran University of Science and Technology in 2007 and her MFA from Malmö Art Academy in 2009. Her work has been exhibited at various venues including HISK, Gent; Mercosur Biennial, Brazil; Pavilhão 28, Lisbon and rum46, Århus among others.

* Only one of the 2-channel video projections of Swede Home will be on display at Gallery No. 6.

Gallery No. 6
No 6, 18th st, Kheradmand-e Shomali, Tehran
March 5 – 10, 2010
Sat – Wed 15:00 – 19:00
Tel: +9821 88346029